Are your plastic chopping boards leaching toxins and microplastics into your food?
Plastic chopping boards are a common fixture in most kitchens today, valued for their light weight, affordability, and easy availability....
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: Sakshi Srivastava
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Are your plastic chopping boards leaching toxins and microplastics into your food?
Published on : 25 Sep, 2025Plastic chopping boards are a common fixture in most kitchens today, valued for their light weight, affordability, and easy availability....
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Can tongue scraping really prevent Alzheimer’s and heart disease?
Published on : 24 Sep, 2025An Instagram reel by author and speaker Dr Daniel Pompa has sparked widespread discussion online over claims that tongue scraping...
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Are cotton swabs dangerous for your ear health and eardrum?
Published on : 23 Sep, 2025CLAIM: Never clean your ears because earwax is essential for ear health, and the ears naturally clean themselves. FACT: Earwax...
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India’s alarming childhood obesity crisis: A looming global health threat
Published on : 23 Sep, 2025Obesity has emerged as one of the most pressing health challenges of our time. While fitness tips, videos, and quick...
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From stethoscopes to digital twins, AI Is rewriting medicine
Published on : 10 Sep, 2025With every passing day, the role Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is becoming more prominent, advancing from buzzword to real-world...
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The AI race to automate healthcare: Can we keep the human touch?
Published on : 26 Aug, 2025Picture this: you walk into a hospital and, instead of spending nights waiting for paperwork, you’re out the same afternoon,...
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World Organ Donation Day: ‘Don’t take your organs to heaven; heaven knows we need them here,’ says leading liver transplant surgeon Dr Arvinder Singh Soin
Published on : 13 Aug, 2025According to the Union Health Ministry, India has made unprecedented progress in the field of organ transplantation — performing over...
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The joy of small things
Published on : 12 Aug, 2025Squeezed between deadlines, and phone-scrolling, we are hardly conscious of how time passes us by, and, in turn, how life...
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